Christmas Card 2 - Peale
Christmas Card 2 - Quote by Norman Vincent Peale
I got the layout idea for this card from a book called Embellished Emotions for Scrapbookers by Trudy Sigurdson.
In the book it was used as a title bar for a scrapbook page, but I thought that it would make a really pretty card.
In order of first-used, here are the supplies.
One piece of 5x7 red cardstock.
One piece of 5x7 plain vellum
One 8-inch strip of white/gold ribbon
Stitching Template - Lasting Impressions Stitching Guide
White floss - stitch all the way around all of the borders, stitching the vellum and the ribbon down to the red cardstock.
Now for the fun part - I punched out 9 1cm-1cm white squares and stamped the letters "c h r i s t m a s" on to them - and glued these onto 9 1.5cm x 1.5cm red cardstock squares. This took about three years. :D
The rest of the quote was printed onto white cardstock using my computer and the CKscrpit font. I made the words "magic" and "beautiful" slightly larger, and bold. I matted these using red and green cardstock.
Then I made about a million little red pointsettia type flowers using my Cricut - George and Basic Shapes cardridge using the daisy key. The Red ones are 1inch and the green ones are 1.5 inch - I cut all but two of the petals off of the green "daisies" and put two red ones on top. Finally. . . I used gold rhinestones for the centers of the flowers, and added a few red and green rhinestones for detial around the quote. I used a lot of heavy duty glue and after gluing the finished pieces onto white 5x7 cards I left them under a stack of heavy books overnight.
Oh - don't forget the insides - I staped "Happy Holidays" and colored with glitter gel pens, and added another pointsettia flower to the inside lower left corner of each card too.
As a final touch I also used those red and green and gold glitter pens to add little square borders around the white cardstock letters and quotes. Whew!
These took three days to build, so I made three of them. There was a ton of cutting out to do and gluing them all together is what took the longest - but these are my favorite ones of the season so far.
I got the layout idea for this card from a book called Embellished Emotions for Scrapbookers by Trudy Sigurdson.
In the book it was used as a title bar for a scrapbook page, but I thought that it would make a really pretty card.
In order of first-used, here are the supplies.
One piece of 5x7 red cardstock.
One piece of 5x7 plain vellum
One 8-inch strip of white/gold ribbon
Stitching Template - Lasting Impressions Stitching Guide
White floss - stitch all the way around all of the borders, stitching the vellum and the ribbon down to the red cardstock.
Now for the fun part - I punched out 9 1cm-1cm white squares and stamped the letters "c h r i s t m a s" on to them - and glued these onto 9 1.5cm x 1.5cm red cardstock squares. This took about three years. :D
The rest of the quote was printed onto white cardstock using my computer and the CKscrpit font. I made the words "magic" and "beautiful" slightly larger, and bold. I matted these using red and green cardstock.
Then I made about a million little red pointsettia type flowers using my Cricut - George and Basic Shapes cardridge using the daisy key. The Red ones are 1inch and the green ones are 1.5 inch - I cut all but two of the petals off of the green "daisies" and put two red ones on top. Finally. . . I used gold rhinestones for the centers of the flowers, and added a few red and green rhinestones for detial around the quote. I used a lot of heavy duty glue and after gluing the finished pieces onto white 5x7 cards I left them under a stack of heavy books overnight.
Oh - don't forget the insides - I staped "Happy Holidays" and colored with glitter gel pens, and added another pointsettia flower to the inside lower left corner of each card too.
As a final touch I also used those red and green and gold glitter pens to add little square borders around the white cardstock letters and quotes. Whew!
These took three days to build, so I made three of them. There was a ton of cutting out to do and gluing them all together is what took the longest - but these are my favorite ones of the season so far.